ALLMedicine™ Acute Stress Disorder Center

Jan 16th, 2022 - Health-care Workers (HCW) are facing a critical situation caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which could impact on their mental health status. In addition, HCW women have been identified as a group at high-risk of developing psychologic...

Jan 13th, 2022 - Covid-19 by itself is a stressful and difficult health condition to face and deal with, as it not only affects people individually but threatens all those around them due to its highly contagious nature. As a public health emergency declared back ...

Dec 7th, 2021 - Military personnel and frontline emergency workers may be exposed to events that have the potential to precipitate negative mental health outcomes such as depression, symptoms of post-traumatic stress and even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - History Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) begins with clinical interviews of the child and the caregiver. The interviewer should be aware that caregivers may also be involved in abuse. For many reasons, the traumatic experience it...

Nov 16th, 2021 - Practice Essentials Acute stress disorder (ASD) is an intense and unpleasant reaction that develops in the weeks following a traumatic event. Symptoms typically last for one month or less. If symptoms persist beyond one month, affected individuals...

Jan 13th, 2022 - Covid-19 by itself is a stressful and difficult health condition to face and deal with, as it not only affects people individually but threatens all those around them due to its highly contagious nature. As a public health emergency declared back ...

Feb 20th, 2020 - Participation in military operations, especially in times of war, places personnel and their family members at increased risk for mental health problems. In 2003, among the 1.4 million active duty United States service members, mental disorders re...

Nov 4th, 2019 - Our long-term goal is to understand, from a mechanistic perspective, how ART appears to result in rapid, successful treatment of PTSD and related comorbidities. This knowledge will help to identify target populations for treatment, and objective a...

Jun 9th, 2014 - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a relatively common, distressing and disabling condition that may occur after trauma related events including injury. The emergence of Acute Stress Disorder shortly after the trauma appears to be a strong pr...

Nov 20th, 2012 - The accepted definition for a mentally traumatic event is an event in which there is a chance of death, severe injury or a severe threat to one's body (either as a victim or as an observer) and that event stimulates an intense emotional response o...

Dec 31st, 2020 - This story was originally published on March 24, 2020. As part of MedPage Today's review of the past year's top stories, we are republishing it, along with an update on COVID-19's mental health impacts, reviewing subsequent developments in 2020. I...

Mar 24th, 2020 - It was contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus herself that made Maryland psychologist Myrna Frank, PhD, completely transition her practice to telehealth appointments. On Monday, March 9, the day after Frank returned from the annual American Group Ps...

Jun 2nd, 2017 - More than half of children and youth who present to the emergency department (ED) with a mental health problem have not received any previous mental health treatment by a specialist or primary care clinician, new research shows. "Emergency service...

Feb 24th, 2017 - The Importance of Social Media in Psychiatric Care In the wake of our recent presidential election, it is now more evident than ever how social media has worked its way to the core of Americans' daily functioning. Whether as a news source or an ou...

Feb 8th, 2017 - All people experience traumatic events during their lifetimes, such as the loss of a loved one, bullying, or sexual assault. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other situations involving actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual...